Last week we touched on how convolutional neural networks can be easily duped using nothing more than a computer-generated "patch" applied to a piece of cardboard. This week we want to keep the theme of neural networks alive, only this time addressing the fascinating topic of deep fakes. We have discussed this before (here), touching on how hyper-realistic media formats, such as images and vide...

DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence group, has built a working prototype of a device that can diagnose complex eye diseases in real time, in a major step towards the Alphabet-owned company’s first medical device.In a live demonstration this month of its AI system, where a patient agreed to be examined publicly, DeepMind performed a retinal scan and real-time diagnosis of her eye. The...

Electreon leading a $12.5m electric transportation project by an international consortium aiming to reduce CO2 emissions from heavy trucks and buses.The Swedish Transport Administration chose a wholly owned Swedish subsidiary of Israeli company Electreon Wireless to lead a consortium in building the world’s first demo of a road that will wirelessly charge an electric truck and an electric bus...

The tech giant's fiscal second-quarter revenue — including that from its all-important iPhone line — fell from the same period a year earlier, as did its earnings. But the results topped analysts' muted expectations.When Apple reported its latest quarterly results earlier this week, there were no major surprises: iPhone sales were slightly down year-over-year, services revenue reached a new a...

Automobile maker Ford has borrowed anti-collision technology from its cars to build a supermarket trolley that children can't crash.The Self-Braking Trolley is designed to stop automatically before hitting a person, shelf or any other obstacle.The feature could prevent many uncomfortable rogue trolley scenarios, but Ford designed it with children in mind.The US company noted that kids are often...

In just the last decade, the marketing world has been dramatically transformed. Spending on digital media surpassed television ads in 2017, and now global digital spend is anticipated to top $333 billion this year.As a result, today’s entrepreneurs and small businesses are starting to think about marketing in almost exclusively digital terms – and to have a successful online strategy, it’s i...

A new patent awarded to Samsung last week reveals an ambitious phone concept that includes a screen that wraps around the entire device, from front to back. The patent was first spotted by the tech website Let's Go Digital. Since it's just a patent filing, there are no official product photos or videos showing the concept device in action. Instead, we have a bunch of illustrations that give us...

As e-commerce volumes soar, many logistics and parcel companies hope that automation is the answer. But as this second article in our series on disruption explains, things are not so simple.The history of logistics is also a history of automation, from the steam engine to the forklift to today’s robotic pickers and packers. So today’s fevered interest in new machinery, after a lull of several...

Walmart unveiled a new “store of the future” and test grounds for emerging technologies, including AI-enabled cameras and interactive displays. The store, a working concept called the Intelligent Retail Lab — or “IRL” for short — operates out of a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y.The store is open to customers and is one of Walmart’s busiest Neighborhood Market stores, conta...